Facts in Q&A format

As of 2018, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa and Nigeria are in the top bracket of African emitters of greenhouse gases. Africa as a continent is one of the lowest greenhouse gas polluters, but because of poverty and other risk factors, it remains vulnerable to the effects of clima...

Nigeria generates over 32 million tons of solid waste yearly. ...

On September 15 2020, the Zimbabwe government announced changes to the country’s agro-ecological boundaries, which had been in place since the 1960s. Agro-ecological zones are identified based on the “distribution of soil, land surface and climate”, says the United Nations’ Food and...

Nairobi City County generated an estimated 3 million tonnes and collected an estimated 1.6 million tonnes of solid waste in 2019. These numbers are provisional. ...

The area of Mount Kenya’s glaciers (ice masses) decreased by an estimated 44% from 2004 to 2016. If the glaciers continue to shrink at current rates, one estimate predicts their extinction before 2030. ...

Wildebeest were the most common (288,000) in Kenya’s rangelands, followed by zebras (106,500) and gazelles (103,900). ...

In 2018, Kenya had 22 national parks, 28 national reserves, five national sanctuaries and four forest reserves, according to the National Wildlife Strategy 2030, published by the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife. This made up 66,415 km2 – or 11.7% – of Kenya’s land area, which is 569,140 km2, ...

In 2020,394 rhino were poached for their horn in South Africa. This is 33% less than the 594 killed in 2019 and marks the sixth year that rhino poaching has continued to decrease in South Africa. ...